back for 14 hours - unpacking, packing, cutting some hair, laughing at the weather here because it's not my problem.

just call me gulliver.





art wise - not a lot to report: the exhibition here in newcastle is on hold until i can stay still in one place long enough to finish, hang and publicise it, and the one in leeds is still on. i think.

didn't get to see any of the stuff i intended to in paris because, as we all know, this making plans business is business of fools. i really must stop doing it. so the female artists at the pompidou and the "nee dans la rue" graff stuff remain probablywonderfulbuticouldn'tpossiblycomment. what we did see were at least half a dozen lifesize jef aerosol's on the corner of the street where we lived (rue mouffetard, if anyone wants to go out and find them), and they were every bit as beautiful as the titchy tiny one i have here in my gilded cage. much more so for being free ... also (and i can't believe i'm saying this either, but it's true) i have to recommend a visit to the louis vuitton shop on champs elysees. reallly. not for the absurd €350 keyrings or €41,5000 travel chest (it was nice, yes, but for fuck's SAKE - you can buy entire houses for that price in some places...), but for the art space and how you get to it. it called "l'espace" and it's a lift up to the seventh floor, BUT, it's a lift that has been entirely lined with padded black velvet (floor too), so that when the doors shut you are in almost total sensory deprivation for the slow, silent seven storey ascent, and when the doors open up again onto the exhibition your senses are flooded. it's MAD. and the stuff they have up there is good. really good. tracey emin, jenny holzer, robin rhode, ni haifeng ... i'm a huge fan of tracey emin, so i was blown away to find her work up there - especially as there was one of her neon tube pieces which i'd never seen before. i'd post a picture for you but i can't remember how to do that in journal's and i really should be doing a zillion other things

and i'm going to go and do them now